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Prom 63: Yuja Wang plays Rachmaninov

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2019

Live at the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms. The Staatskapelle Dresden, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung, perform Brahms's Symphony No 2 and, with Yuja Wang, Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 3.

Live ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms: The Staatskapelle Dresden with Myung-Whun Chung and Yuja Wang in works by Rachmaninov and Brahms.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London
Presented by Ian Skelly

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor

c.8.15pm
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c.8.40pm
Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major

Yuja Wang (piano)
Staatskapelle Dresden
Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

Explosively virtuosic and a thrilling live performer, Yuja Wang is the soloist in Rachmaninov’s emotionally expansive and technically demanding Third Piano Concerto – one of the most challenging in the repertoire.
She joins conductor Myung-Whun Chung and the Staatskapelle Dresden – the second of this week’s visiting European orchestras – for a concert that also includes Brahms’s genial Symphony No. 2, whose freshness and spontaneity have drawn comparisons with Beethoven’s β€˜Pastoral’ Symphony.

2 hours, 29 minutes

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Thu 5 Sep 2019 19:30
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Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor

    Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise (Op.34`14), arr. for misc. forces

    Performer: Yuja Wang.

  • Vincent Youmans

    Tea for Two

    Performer: Yuja Wang.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

    Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No.1 in G minor

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden.

  • Herbie Hancock

    Harvest Time

    Performer: Herbie Hancock.
    • The Piano.
    • Sony.
    • 004.

  • John Luther Adams

    Strange Birds Passing (extract)

    Ensemble: NEC Contemporary Ensemble. Conductor: John Heiss.
    • Mode.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • Conifer.

Broadcast

  • Thu 5 Sep 2019 19:30
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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